Looping over select cell types. Finding cell in the inventory.

We have already see how to iterate over list of all cells. However, quite often we need to iterate over a subset of all cells e.g. cells of a given type. The code snippet below demonstrates howto accomplish such task (in Twedit++ go to CC3D Python->Visit->All Cells of Given Type):

for cell in self.cellListByType(self.CONDENSING):
    print "id=",cell.id," type=",cell.type

As you can see self.cellList is replaced with self.cellListByType(self.CONDENSING) which limits the integration to only those cells which are of type Condensing. We can also choose several cell types to be included in the iteration. For example the following snippet

for cell in self.cellListByType(self.CONDENSING,self.NONCONDENSING):
    print "id=",cell.id," type=",cell.type

will make CC3D visit cells of type Condensing and NonCondensing. The general syntax is:

self.cellListByType(cellType1, cellType2, …)

Occasionally we may want to fetch from a cell inventory a cell object with specific a cell id. This is how we do it (CC3D Python -> Cell Manipulation->Fetch Cell By Id):

cell=self.attemptFetchingCellById(10)
print cell

The output of this code will look as shown below:

Figure 12 Fetching cell with specified id

Function self.attemptFetchingCellById will return cell object with specified cell id if such object exists in the cell inventory. Otherwise it will return Null pointer or None object. Actually to fully identify a cell in CC3D we need to use cell id and cluster. However, when we are not using compartmentalized cells single id , as shown above, insufficient. We will come back to cell ids and cluster ids later in this manual.